Legend doesn't go at light speed, because the closer to light speed he goes, the more it impairs his ability to think. The actual limit for "too simple to turn back" is probably significantly less than light speed, and his inner monologue in 14.y suggests he has his limits down to a point where he doesn't dare try to push that limit any more.
I think faster is the wrong word. Impossibly agile is probably the correct one.
Right. Agility is key in a brawl (or dogfight), but less so when fighting at stand-off ranges as a navy generally prefers. Most parahumans brawl with the Endbringers, even the ones fighting at range are dealing with man-portable ranges, not the over-the-horizon bullshit that the big guns are capable of.
PT boats were notoriously difficult targets, practically impossible to hit at range, because they could (for example) U-turn and reverse course for several boat-lengths while a salvo was in the air. A larger target like a destroyer couldn't do that so effectively, and not just because it's less agile; if a salvo is off target by 100 feet, it misses an 80-foot PT boat but still might hit the 200-foot destroyer.
Well, yes. That's why traditional heroes are all fighting danger-close, all the time. What part of Taylor's armament is traditional? Lasers, masers and railguns solve many of those problems, and AI-controlled firing directors give new meaning to "dead accurate".
Consider the following: 1) Behemoth was not meaningfully damaged by Phir Se beam, that has potential to devastate India. SGC is far less powerful. 2) If bigger suit with bigger guns worked - Dragon used them. Instead she uses close-in brawler.
That was one of recognized dangers of the plan, yes. But due to sandbagging, he let attack connect. Leaving only his skeleton. But it was not meaningful damage.
I would note that the Phir Se beam was operating under standard physics from what I recall, so even if it had more raw power behind it I'd argue that a SGC (which works through Gravity and Quantum schenanigans) or spread of Corrosive Torpedoes has a much better chance of actually dealing significant damage vs an Endbringer and their dimensional schenanigans.
I wonder if their effects could propagate through the Corona and Gemma to the shard side?
Unlikely. Graviton manipulation doesn't have anything to do with dimensional anything – unless the Corona Pollentia & Gemma utilize an always-active and -open portal, that the gravity waves can spill into, the more-likely result would simply be the shard getting the equivalent of a "Connection Lost" message the instant the host's CP&G are destroyed.
Well, if you involve string theory, it does, actually.
String Theory is in Birdcage, so it's unlikely to be involved.
Except she's not a Tinker. She's more a Changer/Shaker with all sorts of sub-ratings.
